The meeting with Margrethe Vestager, the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, occurred in the House of Science of the Academic Centre of the UL. Margrethe Vestager was acquainted with the new Academic Centre of the University of Latvia and its development by Prof. Indriķis Muižnieks, the Rector of the UL, and Signe Bāliņa, the Rector's Advisor for Digital Society of the UL. Prof. Andris Ambainis, the Head of the Centre for Quantum Computer Science of the Faculty of Computing (FC) of the University of Latvia, and Maksims Dimitrijevs, the researcher at the Centre of Quantum Computer Science, introduced to research in the field of quantum algorithms and demonstrated a quantum algorithm that can be run on a quantum computer. Whereas Gunta Kunakova, the leading researcher at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the UL, presented the Latvian Quantum Initiative and Zane Kalniņa, Accenture Baltics Applied Quantum R&D Project Lead, talked about the joint research of the UL and the company Accenture in using quantum algorithms to analyze radiological images.
The meeting was also attended by Zane Petre, the Head of the European Commission's Representation in Latvia, prof. Valdis Segliņš, LU Vice-Rector in Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine, Aleksandrs Belovs and Mārtiņš Kālis, researchers in the Centre for Quantum Computer Science.
The research group of the Centre for Quantum Computer Science of the Faculty of Computing of the University of Latvia (UL FC), which currently has 20 researchers, has gained recognition not only in Europe but also in the world due to significant research in the field of quantum algorithms and quantum walks. A common goal unites all these researches – to find where and how quantum computers could be applied best. As part of the meeting, Andris Ambainis especially emphasized the importance of quantum software development, which is based on the research of quantum algorithms, because without software, quantum computers will not be applicable.
The Centre for Quantum Computer Science (CQCS) is an important cooperation partner for the Latvian Quantum Initiative and other European countries. The CQCS researchers and partners from Amsterdam, Paris, Copenhagen, Munich etc., work on implementing various projects and have founded a virtual institute, "EQSI – European Quantum Software Institute", to facilitate research and development of quantum software.
At the end of the meeting, Margrethe Vestager commended the work of UL researchers. She emphasized that UL proves that even small countries can achieve excellence with the right people.
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